<p><span>One of the funniest novels you are likely to read, which you will particularly appreciate if you have the perverse nature of a Beckett lover, or have come across David Vardeman''s books, </span><em>Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow</em><span> is a book of precision taken to torturous limits of hilarity. Sure a woman has been murdered and the eye witness is a talking, thinking, reading stuffed donkey, but it is not entirely absurd, for it suggests a number of human truths like a short electric cut through Wittgenstein, who plays a role in the novel that begins with the sheer absurd and ends with a more elevated absurd, you odd and Cartesian human reader.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>A book that can be read in one sitting, it is also a book that you will read at least three times if you do race through it in a sitting. Perhaps you shoul